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AMD's OpenCL Allows GPU Code To Run On X86 CPUs

Posted by timothy on from the now-that's-something-like dept.

eldavojohn writes "Two blog posts from AMD are causing a stir in the GPU community. AMD has created and released the industry's first OpenCL which allows developers to code against AMD's graphics API (normally only used for their GPUs) and run it on any x86 CPU. Now, as a developer, you can divide the workload between the two as you see fit instead of having to commit to either GPU or CPU. Ars has more details."

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  1. Re:Optimization by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why would anyone ever want to do something well when they can fail at several things?

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  2. Re:The real benefit by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    to create an application that both supported GPU optimization and could run naively on any system?

    Yes, that's the solution. Have your code run on any system, all too willing to be duped by street vendors, and blissfully unaware of the nefarious intentions of the guy waving candy from the back of the BUS.

    Oh... you meant running code natively... I see.

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